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Love Poems is a bilingual collection of love poetry by Yehuda Amichai, one of the best loved Hebrew poets of the twentieth century and winner of the Israel Prize for poetry in 1982. In Hebrew the book is called שירי אהבה.
The poems are presented in the original Hebrew with English translations on the facing page, so you can read them in either language or follow the two side by side. Amichai writes about love in plain, everyday words, weaving it together with memory, mortality and life in Israel.
This compact hardcover edition from Schocken runs to 146 pages. It makes a thoughtful gift and a fine companion for students of Hebrew, lovers of poetry, and anyone who wants to meet Amichai in his own language while keeping a translation close at hand.